[AL:Rift]Official Site:Â RIFT
Studio:Â Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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MMO Year in Review: New Eden free-for-all (November 2016)
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMORPG gaming resolutions for 2017
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Trion Worlds’ Scapes jumps over to Bethsoft
One of the more prominent faces of Trion Worlds has been traded over to the team at Bethesda.
Evan Berman, more commonly known as "Scapes"...
MMO Year in Review: A wild Black Desert approaches (February 2016)
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Jukebox Heroes: The 2016 Online VGM Awards
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Massively Overthinking: Our 2017 MMORPG predictions
With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last...
Massively OP’s guide to the 2016 MMORPG winter holidays
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Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is another new consideration for us this year...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...
Global Chat: Knights of the Eternal Throne debate
With the arrival of SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne, the MMO blogosphere lit up in lively discussion about the expansion, its story, and...
New research suggests head-mounted VR sets are unintentionally sexist
A new research study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers Justin Munafo, Meg Diedrick, and Thomas A. Stoffregen says that head-mounted virtual reality is unintentionally...
RIFT has a ‘mind-blowing’ housing update planned for Patch 4.1
If you'd rather be fiddling around with player housing in RIFT than out fighting in the field, you're our type of homebody. Also, you...
RIFT challenges you to a combat-free puzzle dungeon — if you can even find it
RIFT's newest dungeon is so obscure and inscrutable that most people might not even know it is there. Tok's Proving Ground's entrance is hidden somewhere...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG developer quotes of 2016
One of the fun things we implemented on the site this year is a database of quotes from developers (among other entries) that are...
RIFT hotfix tackles several Starfall Prophecy issues
Over a week after Starfall Prophecy's launch, RIFT is still trying to get on top of the many issues and bugs that have plagued...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
RIFT responds to players who say Starfall Prophecy’s launch was a ‘mess’
Not all is rainbows, unicorns, and talking dragons over in the land of RIFT these days. Serious concerns have arisen about the MMO following...
Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions
This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...